GNU Hello

The GNU Hello program produces a familiar, friendly greeting.
Yes, this is another implementation of the classic program that
prints “Hello, world!” when you run it.

However, unlike the minimal version often seen, GNU Hello processes
its argument list to modify its behavior, supports greetings in many
languages, and so on. The primary purpose of GNU Hello is to
demonstrate how to write other programs that do these things; it serves
as a model for GNU coding standards and
GNU maintainer practices.

GNU Hello is written in C. For implementations in other programming
languages, notably including translation into other languages, please
see the GNU Gettext distribution.

Documentation

Documentation for
Hello
is available online, as
is documentation for most GNU software. You may
also find more information about
Hello
by running
info hello
or
man hello,
or by looking at
/usr/doc/hello/,
/usr/local/doc/hello/,
or similar directories on your system. A brief summary is available by
running hello --help.

Mailing lists

Hello
has one mailing list:
<bug-hello@gnu.org>.
It is used to discuss all aspects of
Hello,
including development and
enhancement requests, as well as bug reports.

To subscribe to these or any GNU mailing lists, please send an empty
mail with a Subject: header of just subscribe to the relevant
-request list. For example, to subscribe yourself to the GNU
announcement list, you would send mail to <info-gnu-request@gnu.org>.
Or you can use the mailing list web
interface.

Getting involved

Development of
Hello,
and GNU in general, is a volunteer effort, and you can contribute. For
information, please read How to help GNU. If you'd
like to get involved, it's a good idea to join the discussion mailing
list (see above).

To translate
Hello's
messages into other languages, please see the Translation Project
page for
Hello.
If you have a new translation of the message strings,
or updates to the existing strings, please have the changes made in this
repository. Only translations from this site will be incorporated into
Hello.
For more information, see the Translation
Project.

Maintainer

Hello
is currently being maintained by
Reuben Thomas
and
Sami Kerola.
Please use the mailing lists for contact.

Licensing

Hello
is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.